Poetry is what gets lost in translation-Robert Frost

February 01, 2018

I, Tonya

I really enjoyed Craig Gillipsie's refreshing biopic I, Tonya (2017) with Margot Robbie as the antihero-Tonya Harding. The Tonya Harding story of having a hit taken out on Nancy Kerrigan to win the Olympics has become nostalgic over the years. This film exhumes the scandal to make a statement about society today? There's a great supporting performance from Allison Janney as her mother. The film uses recreated interviews with those closest Harding – felons and family members alike – who get a chance to tell their stories. I also like how the film broke the fourth wall, not unlike The Big Short-to address the audience in a winking ironic way.The movie holds up a mirror up to the class-conscious America most people ignore or dismiss. Nancy Kerrigan is something of a cypher in the film as the whole perspective comes from the Harding side of the story.